A photo of the Muscoy (CA) Little League Comets taken in 1965. Photo courtesy of William Childers. Spanish and Mexican land grants made up much of the Inland Empire during the early…
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The Mormon Rocks are visual evidence of the San Andreas Fault beneath the surface. Photo courtesy of Hear2heaL. Earth’s crust is made up of large fractured plates that have moved…
Ludlow Cafe in the late 1940s. Ludlow is a small town in the Mojave Desert. In the 1880s, the Southern Pacific Railroad became involved in a high-stakes gamble to build…
Mitchell Caverns. Photo courtesy of Bruce Herwig. Providence Mountains State Recreation Area is a remote Mojave Desert park and the home of the Mitchell Caverns. The caverns are located approximately…
San Bernardino High School in 1929. In 1891, residents of San Bernardino approved a $60,000 bond to construct a high school. One year later, San Bernardino High School was officially…
Interstate 10 highway sign. Before the Interstate Highway System, a patchwork of country roads and trails connected the four corners of the United States. Today, one of the most recognizable…
A Haynes-Apperson automobile advertisement. Although the automobile was first invented and developed in Germany and France in the late 1800s, the United States quickly became a leader in the automotive…
Dome on the main Big Bear Solar Observatory building viewed from Big Bear Lake. Photo courtesy of Pgoode1943. For the first time in nearly 40 years, a total solar eclipse…
Interstate 15 on ramp sign in the Mojave Desert. Interstate 15 is a major highway in the western United States. It begins near the U.S. – Mexico border in San…
A still from the American film “The Call of the North” (1914) with Robert Edeson and Winifred Kingston. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures. The San Bernardino Mountains played an important…
